Nearly two years have passed since I updated this blog. I didn't realize it had been that long. During the last few years I have retreated more and more from hiking and photography to take care of more personal issues. I needed to put my needs aside for a time. The care of family members can take an emotional and physical toll on ones psyche. In some ways it leaves you stronger, but it also leaves you completely drained in soul and spirit. That is where I have found myself. Completely drained. But one thing my beautiful daughter has taught me is to never give up. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and keep moving forward. During the last few years I have kept this website running but that is about all. I've added a few pictures now and then, but it takes time and energy to keep something like this moving forward. The last few weeks, during the summer heat, I have started redesigning my website. Nothing too extreme but I feel it has a cleaner look now. I've been adding pictures and updating the basic organization of the galleries. I hope you can take some time to explore my site. If you like the outdoors maybe my images will touch your soul. Maybe brighten your day a little. My photography is my escape and each image I share is important to me in some way. I hope by sharing them I can share the peace I feel when I am on the trails.

Thank you for staying around during this period and I will be posting more often in the near future.

Check out my website at www.wildnessphotos.com. It is best viewed on a desktop or laptop computer. Some effects are lost on mobile devices.